The Horseman's Song

1. The sixth in the Martin Bora series.

2. Spellbinding multi-layered crime novel set in a fascinating period and

place. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the tragic prelude to WWII. The

action takes place in the scorched and fly-infested high sierras of Aragon,

where a troop of Franco's volunteers under the orders of Bora face a

platoon from the International Brigades led by an American. The focal point

of the story is the mystery of the poet Garcia Lorca's murder. His body was

never found. It is still being looked for today.

2. Controversially, the hero is an aristocratic German officer in the

Wehrmacht. With echoes of Claus von Stauffenberg, he is torn between his

duty as an officer and his integrity as a human being. He and his American

"enemy" fall in love with the same woman of the night, and eventually join

forces seeking to resolve the Lorca murder.

3. Will appeal to fans of Phillip Kerr (Bernie Gunther series), Alan Furst

("Spies of the Balkans") and Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader".

4. It should benefit from the continued high profile search in Spain for

Lorca's body and the vogue for WWII in fiction, film and tv. "Dunkirk",

"Valkyrie", "Inglourious Basterds", "Pacific".